[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#703950: Unfortunate short description

[Justin B Rye]

Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:
> I would like to suggest another wording for the package description.
> 
> The current description is:
> 
> Description: Gerber file viewer for PCB design
>  gerbv is a utility for viewing Gerber RS-274X files, Excellon drill files,
>  and CSV pick-and-place files. Gerber files are used for communicating
>  printed circuit board (PCB) designs to PCB manufacturers.
> 
> For me the design in the short description is wrong and the CSV pick-and-place
> files were a riddle for translators. Do you mean input data for placement
> machines?
> 
> Here is my suggestion:
> 
> Description: Gerber file viewer for PCB manufacturing
>  gerbv is a utility for viewing Gerber RS-274X files, Excellon drill files,
>  and CSV files for placement machines. Gerber files are used for communicating
>  printed circuit board (PCB) designs to PCB manufacturers.
> 
> Perhaps it's a good idea to swap the sentences?

If these files are a way for designers to summarise their plans and
give orders to manufacturers, you could equally plausibly describe
them as used in PCB design or PCB manufacturing.  On the other hand,
isn't it the designers that we're expecting to use this software?
-- 
JBR
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